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12:35 PM ET, March 11, 2018

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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Trump: “Maxine Waters A Very Low I.Q. Individual”  —  President Trump addresses a campaign rally for Pennsylvania special House election candidate Rick Saccone.  Saccone is the Republican candidate for the 18th Congressional district, a seat that was held by a Republican who resigned.
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Matt Gillow / The Independent:
Whisper it, but maybe Trump isn't that bad after all  —  There's a lot to criticise, but let's face it: unemployment is down, major corporations are paying their bills, he's arranged a meeting with Kim Jong-un and he's advocating for gun control  —  Mention the President of the United States …
New York Times:
‘Is There Anything More Fun Than a Trump Rally?’  —  MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The trip was ostensibly an effort to help Republicans stave off a deflating defeat in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that President Trump won by 20 points.  —  And in a rally at Pittsburgh's airport …
Washington Post:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump again calls for the death penalty for drug dealers
Paul Kane / Washington Post:   The GOP's messages don't seem to be working in Pennsylvania. Is that a warning sign?
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Trump touts GOP candidate — and talks drug dealers, 2020 and Oprah in whirlwind rally
Discussion: Splinter
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump urges support for GOP House candidate
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump to rally for endangered Republican in Pennsylvania
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To “60 Minutes” Airing Of A Stormy Daniels Interview  —  Anderson Cooper interviewed the adult film performer and director on Thursday.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC … Lawyers associated with President Donald Trump are considering legal action to stop …
Discussion: BBC, Political Wire and Washington Post
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Fox News host Jesse Watters to divorce after cheating on wife with 25-year-old employee  —  Fox News is in sleazy Watters yet again.  —  The network's prominent host Jesse Watters — who dined on Monday with President Trump — is in the midst of divorce due to an affair with a 25-year-old associate producer.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The First Porn President  —  WASHINGTON — Why not just go with Dirk Diggler?  —  I mean, if you're going to pick a fake name to pay off a porn star you've dallied with, why choose something bland like David Dennison?  —  If you are, after all, Donald Trump, the king of grandiosity …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response  —  President Trump is in discussions with a veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during the impeachment process about joining the White House to help deal with the special counsel inquiry, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Warren: 'I'm not running for president'
Alessia Grunberger / CNN:   Sen. Warren says she isn't running for president in 2020
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Why Tamika Mallory Won't Condemn Farrakhan  —  When I was 17, I was a scruffy-headed biracial black and Jewish teenager, and a furious Louis Farrakhan hater.  In the mid-1990s, Farrakhan's fame and influence was at its height; I had once been thrown out of a middle school gym class for calling the Nation of Islam leader a racist.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
CNN's Bizarre Blackout On Democrats' Farrakhan Scandal  — CNN has refused to inform their audience of a growing scandal tying prominent Democrats to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan  — At least eight Democrats are known to have met with Farrakhan and four have refused to denounce him
Jonathan Lis / Associated Press:
Vladimir Putin: Maybe ‘Jews With Russian Citizenship’ Meddled in U.S. Elections  —  Russia's Putin tells NBC ‘I do not care at all’ about alleged Russian meddling Israeli lawmaker says ‘hatred of Jews’ lies at the root of Putin's claim  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested …
Erin Donnelly / Yahoo:
Teen waitress gets college scholarship after photo of her cutting up a 78-year-old diner's food goes viral  —  act of kindness has reaped a huge reward for one Texas teen.  —  Evoni Williams, who works in a La Marque, Texas, Waffle House to save money for college, was photographed by a diner …
Discussion: theGrio, KVUE-TV, Breitbart and Fox News
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Footage of mysterious object above ocean stuns military personnel  —  SEE ALSO  —  Newly-released video of a mysterious object streaking over the Atlantic Ocean shows the Pentagon needs to take UFOs seriously, a researcher says.  —  The sensational two-minute clip captured by a camera aboard …
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
G.O.P. Rushed to Pass Tax Overhaul.  Now It May Need to Be Altered.  —  WASHINGTON — The legislative blitz that rocketed the $1.5 trillion tax cut through Congress in less than two months created a host of errors and ambiguities in the law that businesses big and small are just now discovering and scrambling to address.
Discussion: Political Wire
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump wants new authority over polling places.  Top election officials say no  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact.
Michael Gerson / The Atlantic:
The Last Temptation  —  One of the most extraordinary things about our current politics—really, one of the most extraordinary developments of recent political history—is the loyal adherence of religious conservatives to Donald Trump.  The president won four-fifths of the votes of white evangelical Christians.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy
Discussion: Althouse
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
ABC Shelved ‘Black-ish’ Political Episode Over ‘Creative Differences’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Discussion: The Root and Mashable
New York Times:
Vote. That's Just What They Don't Want You to Do.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Gun Plan to Include Encouraging States to Allow Armed School Staff
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Post:
Parents up in arms after NYPD removes cops from schools
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In Trump-Russia probe, what's with that meeting in the Seychelles?
John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump says he hopes Oprah runs: ‘It would be a painful experience for her’
Discussion: Althouse
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William J. Broad / New York Times:
Plumes Seen at Plutonium Plant May Belie Kim's Disarmament Talk
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
The Terror Continues: Walmart, Cox Comms Dole Out Bonuses To Workers Thanks To Trump's Tax Bill
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
Discussion: Boing Boing
New York Times:
The Missing Obama Millions
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Out of Public View, Trumps and Kushners Are Talking Business
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US

 
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